more temper rate muslims insist that the taliban are not holy warriors for islam but the taliban have illegitimately ceased that label for themselves and hide behind it for their aks. in the taliban's letter they justify trying to kill a female because the letter says, quote, we can see the incident in the koran of the killing of a wife by a blind companion of the prophet because she spoke insulting words about the prophet and the prophet praised this act. the taliban defended attempting to shoot and kill a child with another story in the koran. hazrat khizar while traveling with the prophet musa killed a child. arguing about the reason for his killing, he said that the parents of this child are pious and in the future the child will cause a bad name for them. religious extremists all make the same mistake. they all fail to understand that all of the foundational holy books of major religions, all of them, have really, really crazy, dangerous stuff in them, stuff that was written by men, men who were not just fallible but men who were wrong, some of them claimed at times to be taking